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• Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.
• Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
• An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
• I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up…
• I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it.…
• I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story…
• I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling…
• The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone…

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